Squint (?), a. [Cf. D. schuinte a slope, schuin, schuinisch, sloping, oblique, schuins slopingly. Cf. Askant, Askance, Asquint.]
1.
Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
2.
Fig.: Looking askance. "Squint suspicion." Milton.
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Squint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting.]
1.
To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
Some can squint when they will.
Bacon.
2. (Med.)
To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; -- to be cross-eyed.
3.
To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
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Squint, v. t.
1.
To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
2.
To cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
He . . . squints the eye, and makes the harelid.
Shak.
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Squint, n.
1.
The act or habit of squinting.
2. (Med.)
A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
3. (Arch.)
Same as Hagioscope.
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Squint, v. i.
To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
The Forum.
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